{"id":6116,"date":"2023-06-14T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6116"},"modified":"2023-06-14T08:16:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-14T13:16:56","slug":"updikes-rabbit-angstrom-makes-goodreads-100-best-books-of-all-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/14\/updikes-rabbit-angstrom-makes-goodreads-100-best-books-of-all-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s Rabbit Angstrom makes Goodreads&#8217; 100 Best Books of All Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/03\/RA100.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"156\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/03\/RA100.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4706\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Popular&#8221; and &#8220;classic&#8221; are relative terms in the world of books, because the bottom line is often whether a book or an author is still being read. That appears to be very much the case with John Updike&#8217;s <em>Rabbit Angstrom<\/em> tetralogy. Updike&#8217;s story of an American middle-class Everyman landed on <a href=\"https:\/\/booksofbrilliance.com\/2023\/06\/09\/goodreads-100-best-books-of-all-time\/\">&#8220;Goodreads&#8217; 100 Best Books of All Time&#8221;<\/a> list. Goodreads&#8217; lists are compiled by readers who visit the site and use it to rate books and chart their own reading progress. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>See who else made the <a href=\"https:\/\/booksofbrilliance.com\/2023\/06\/09\/goodreads-100-best-books-of-all-time\/\">Goodreads&#8217; 100 Best Books of All Time list<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Popular&#8221; and &#8220;classic&#8221; are relative terms in the world of books, because the bottom line is often whether a book or an author is still being read. That appears to be very much the case with John Updike&#8217;s Rabbit Angstrom &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/06\/14\/updikes-rabbit-angstrom-makes-goodreads-100-best-books-of-all-time\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6116"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6117,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6116\/revisions\/6117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}